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 Jun 10 2006, 10:08 PM
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QUOTE DETROIT - A 16-year-old honor student from Michigan tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew off to the Mideast to be with a West Bank man she met on MySpace.com, authorities say. U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded her to turn around and go home before she reached the West Bank. She returned home Friday. Katherine R. Lester is a straight-A student and student council member, her father said. “She’s a good girl. Never had a problem with her,” Terry Lester said. Claimed to be going to Canada Katherine disappeared Monday after talking her family into getting her a passport by saying she was going to Canada with friends, sheriff’s officials said. She apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, Undersheriff James Jashinske said. The FBI traced the teenager to a Wednesday flight from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. At a scheduled stop in Amman, Jordan, U.S. officials persuaded her to return home, FBI agent Robert Beeckman said. Television news footage showed Katherine waving as she walked across a tarmac at Bishop International Airport in Flint late Friday. She was taken to a private area to be reunited with her family. Katherine apparently contacted the man from Jericho about three months ago, Jashinske said. Jericho, a city of 17,000, is a relatively calm area of the volatile West Bank. MySpace forbids youngsters 13 and under from joining and provides special protections for those 14 and 15 — only people on their list of friends can view their profiles. Older users also have the option of restricting certain personal data so it can be seen only by people they have identified as friends. Unclear if any law violated Shawn Lester told The Saginaw News that her daughter has “never given me a day’s trouble. ... I just don’t understand with all these new laws protecting America how a 16-year-old kid could get out of the country.” She said her daughter never had a boyfriend and seemed to be content with that. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said he could say little about the girl because of privacy rules. Katherine and her mother live in Gilford, a village about 80 miles north of Detroit in Michigan’s agricultural Thumb region. Her father lives in Grand Blanc Township. The age of consent in Michigan is 16; Katherine turns 17 on June 21. “I’ll be honest with you, we don’t know if a crime’s been committed,” Jashinske said Friday. “I’ll be honest with you, we don’t know if a crime’s been committed,” 
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Jun 11 2006, 09:21 PM
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What idiot.. besides this girl
would go off with a man she met on the internet?!? O________O What is this world coming to? |
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Jun 11 2006, 09:25 PM
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^ Idiocy.
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Jun 11 2006, 09:25 PM
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 Peggy. Group: Member Posts: 2,508 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 214,025 |
What the...
I doubt her honors status...could this act drop her out of honors? |
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Jun 11 2006, 11:09 PM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
hey i have an idea!
let's all make fun of this girl and call her a stupid idiot so we can feel better about our own pathetic lives! how many of you would have the guts to do something like that? plus, i doubt that's the whole story. but you know, it does make me feel better. we need more of these things. my life is too pathetic. give me more relief. |
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Jun 12 2006, 12:04 AM
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Haha, well, at least this time they didn't blame myspace for what happened.
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Jun 12 2006, 12:05 AM
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 Change Gon Come Group: Member Posts: 2,286 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 18,822 |
before myspace, they freaked out about chat rooms, now they have a specific target, instead of a general one.
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Jun 12 2006, 07:35 AM
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QUOTE(Mikestah @ Jun 11 2006, 8:01 PM)  That girl should be married with Bush. She's stupid.  Haha Agreed. Retardo! I just don't get it. 
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Jun 12 2006, 10:39 AM
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 wow... thats so stupid.
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Jun 19 2006, 10:47 AM
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Newsvine has an interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case.
QUOTE The Palestinian man who befriended a 16-year-old Michigan girl through the MySpace.com Web site and invited her to join him in Jericho said he is heartbroken by U.S. authorities' decision to send her back home. Abdullah Jimzawi, 20, told The Associated Press that his love for Katherine Lester, of Gilford, Mich., was pure and they planned to marry. The music buff, who spends at least 10 hours a day on the Internet, decried attempts to portray him as an Internet predator. "We love the same things, the same songs and we have similar dreams. I fell in love with her because she is innocent and goodhearted. We found ourselves as soul mates," he told the AP on Sunday at his family's comfortable house. Read more… Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story. |
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Jun 19 2006, 12:35 PM
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^ Aw, that one's kinda sad.
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Jun 19 2006, 02:12 PM
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 z0mbie. Group: Member Posts: 97 Joined: Jun 2006 Member No: 419,207 |
See? Its people like her that ruin a good thing like Myspace for people like us. Gah.
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Jun 19 2006, 03:32 PM
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You would think if she wanted to meet somebody she would at least stay in the country!
And the thing about "protecting" 14 and 15 year olds is that they can lie about their age. duh and never underestimate the straight A students! |
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Jun 19 2006, 03:39 PM
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I saw that in the paper
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Jun 19 2006, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE(mipadi @ Jun 19 2006, 8:47 AM) Newsvine has an interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case. Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story. i still think its a crock of shiet. -_-'' i hope this girl got the ass whoopin of her life. Did anyone see that one news story where some dumbshit kid traveled to Iraq because he apparently had a project on the war on Iraq and wanted to gauge the situation in IRL. F.cking dumbass. He used his college money to pay for the ticket and got his ass dragged back by the US embassy. DUMBASS. I think those two should get married. |
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Jun 19 2006, 04:06 PM
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 Don't wake ghostie. Group: Official Member Posts: 3,546 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,405 |
she fails.
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Jun 19 2006, 04:10 PM
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i dont care ...i have a damn splinter from swimming today and i need to get it out
 .....  QUOTE(mipadi @ Jun 19 2006, 11:47 AM) Newsvine has an interesting article that humanizes the Palestinian man involved in this case. Clearly it brings up issues as to whether you can love someone—enough to marry her—that you don't know in real life, but at any rate, the article does put another slant on the story. and she just had to wait 2 more years till shes full grown and do w/e she wants . |
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Jun 19 2006, 05:32 PM
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i blame the parents.
how did they not expect their kid to pull off something like that? there must've been some underlying problem for her to even think about doing that. she could've been one of those "straight a students" who was tired of living up to her parents' high expectations. |
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Jun 19 2006, 05:39 PM
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ahaha. wow .. she's a fcuking idiot.
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Jun 19 2006, 05:48 PM
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MySpacers these days...
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Jun 19 2006, 08:49 PM
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well, most of us are certainly doing a good job at making ourselves feel bettter.
but not all. shame shame. |
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Jun 19 2006, 09:16 PM
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 banana ham! Group: Member Posts: 661 Joined: Sep 2005 Member No: 227,050 |
stupid girl.
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Jun 20 2006, 01:34 AM
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dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
delicious!
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Jun 20 2006, 01:36 AM
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i hate how myspace is everywhere nowadays. also how when it`s in the news its always something BAD.
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Jun 25 2006, 12:01 PM
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QUOTE Psshh. Honor student... not according to her actions haha thats just what i was thinking
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Jun 25 2006, 12:13 PM
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Wow she's stupid.
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